The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams (Frogley Alain)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams (Frogley Alain)(Paperback)

An icon of British national identity and one of the most widely performed twentieth-century composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams has been misunderstood as much as he had been revered; his international impact and enduring influence on areas as diverse as church music, film scores and popular music has

Vaughan Williams: Composer, Radical, Patriot - A Biography (Alldritt Keith)(Paperback)

The ground-breaking biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams reveals more than any other the man behind the music. In this new paperback edition, the author examines the considerable range of Vaughan Williams's work, from the English pastoral tradition to Modernism, and shows how Vaughan Williams was

The Cambridge Companion to the Circus (Arrighi Gillian)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to the Circus provides a complete guide for students, scholars, teachers, researchers, and practitioners who are seeking perspectives on the foundations and evolution of the modern circus, the contemporary extent of circus studies, and the specialised literature available to

The Cambridge Companion to Socrates (Morrison Donald R.)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Socrates is a collection of essays providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher. Because Socrates himself wrote nothing, our evidence comes from the writings of his friends (above all Plato), his enemies, and later writers. Socrates is

The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (Meierhenrich Jens)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law introduces students, scholars, and practitioners to the theory and history of the rule of law, one of the most frequently invoked-and least understood-ideas of legal and political thought and policy practice. It offers a comprehensive re-assessment by

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought (de Bruyn Frans)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought gives a comprehensive overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth-century Anglophone world at a time when the boundaries of knowledge were growing rapidly in response to a world undergoing radical change. Organised in two parts, the volume

The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic (Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic offers an accessible overview to both the breadth and depth of the American Gothic tradition. This subgenre features works from many of America's best-known authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Toni Morrison, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Henry James, Edith Wharton,

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets (Richardson Mark)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro)

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing (Clarke Robert)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles, performances and forms, postcolonial travel writing recounts journeys undertaken

The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law (Hayes Christine)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law explores the Jewish conception of law as an essential component of the divine-human relationship from biblical to modern times, as well as resistance to this conceptualization. It also traces the political, social, intellectual, and cultural circumstances

The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (Eaves Morris)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race (Thompson Ayanna)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare's plays, including the

The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre Since 1945 (Listengarten Julia)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of American theatre. It examines key demographic and geographical shifts American theatre after 1945 experienced in spectatorship, and addresses the economic,

The Cambridge Companion to Hume (Norton David Fate)(Paperback)

Each Cambridge Companion to a philosophical figure is made up of specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, providing students and non-specialists with an introduction to a major philosopher. The series aims to dispel the intimidation that readers may feel when faced with

The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities (Cohen Jeffrey)(Paperback)

This Companion offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities, an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, from environmental racism and global migration to resource impoverishment and the importance of

The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (Berry Mark)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism (Warren James)(Paperback)

This Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the major areas of its philosophical interest. Chapters span the school's history from the early Hellenistic Garden to the Roman Empire and its later

The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism (McGuinness Margaret M.)(Paperback)

This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of American Catholicism's historical development and distinctive features. The essays - all specially commissioned for this volume - highlight the inner diversity of American Catholicism and trace the impact of American Catholics on all aspects of

The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies (Somerville Siobhan B.)(Paperback)

This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender studies, indigenous studies, disability studies, queer of color critique, performance studies, and studies of digital culture. Rather than being

The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (de Grazia Margreta)(Paperback)

Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand

The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism (Taylor Benedict)(Paperback)

This Companion presents a new understanding of the relationship between music and culture in and around the nineteenth century, and encourages readers to explore what Romanticism in music might mean today. Challenging the view that musical 'romanticism' is confined to a particular style or period,

The Cambridge Companion to the Bible and Literature (Carmichael Calum)(Paperback)

This Companion volume offers a sweeping survey of the Bible as a work of literature and its impact on Western writing. Underscoring the sophistication of the biblical writers' thinking in diverse areas of thought, it demonstrates how the Bible relates to many types of knowledge and its immense

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s (Smith James)(Paperback)

This Companion explores an extensive range of 1930s authors, contexts, themes, and literary debates. Informed by current scholarly approaches and analysing the state of the field, it will be an important resource for students and scholars of twentieth-century

The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature (Godden Malcolm)(Paperback)

This Companion has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and to provide a clear and accessible introduction for those encountering Old English literature for the first time. Including seventeen essays by distinguished scholars, this new edition provides a discussion of the